WATER IN GREAT PLENTY; BUT THE FOLKS AT SING SING STILL CRY FOR MORE. THEIR SPIRITS NOT DAMPENED, THOUGH THEIR CLOTHING IS, AND THE WORK GOES BRAVELY ON.

Any assemblage other than the enthusiastic Prohibitionists now holding a camp meeting at Sing Sing would have become discouraged yesterday with the reverses they have had in the way of weather. Yesterday again leaden skies and a cold and exceedingly wet rain compelled the retirement of the hammock and the substitution ...

August 25, 1887

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